On 10, 11 and 12 March the Islands' artistic output will be present in the heart of Berlin. The aim of these activities, which are part of the Be Balears project, is to raise awareness of Catalan culture abroad.
The Catalan writers Imma Monsó and Lolita Bosch will be taking part in the discussion “La découverte de l’autre” on 10th March at 7 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes in Paris.
The 14th edition of the Spanish Cinema Biennale is being held in Annecy from 13th to 23rd March. It is an important event for the film sector in France, and Catalan cinema will be heavily represented. Catalan Films & Television and the Institut Ramon Llull are collaborating with the festival.
The Catalan language will be present at the Lille language fair, which will take place on 19th and 20th March with over a hundred exhibitors. The Institut Ramon Llull will have a stand at the event with information about Catalan language and culture and the universities where Catalan can be learnt: The Charles de Gaulle University – Lille 3 and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale.
The Bòlit Centre for Contemporary Art in Girona and the University of Girona have organized a series of dialogues around The Unavowable Community exhibition on 12th and 26th March. The exhibition will be on display until 11th April at the galleries Bòlit-LaRambla and Bòlit-SantNicolau, as well as other cultural spaces in the city.
The Jofre Theatre in El Ferrol, Galicia, sees the performance of Lluïsa Cunillé’s Après moi, le déluge on Saturday, 27th February, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull.
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On Friday, 5th March, the Institut Ramon Llull and Gandia City Council signed a collaboration agreement for the organization of a series of cultural and literary events to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Francesc Borja. To commemorate the occasion, Gandia City Council has planned a series of cultural events to celebrate the work of the Borja family, and which will feature an important number of Catalan, Valencian and Majorcan artists and intellectuals.
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The Fundació Antoni Tàpies presents the publication of Memòria personal. Fragment per a una autobiografia (Obra escrita completa. Volum I) (Personal Memoir. Fragments for an Autobiography (Complete Writings. Volume I)) in Catalan, Spanish and English on Wednesday, 10th March at 7 p.m. The book is a collection of Tàpies’ memories and reflections from the 1940s to the present day.
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On 10, 11 and 12 March the Islands' artistic output will be present in the heart of Berlin. The aim of these activities, which are part of the Be Balears project, is to raise awareness of Catalan culture abroad.
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This year’s edition of the Ars Musica festival offers two programmes of contemporary Catalan music. On one hand, the opera by Hèctor Parra, Hypermusic Prologue, premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, performed by the Ensemble Contemporain, which opens the festival on 4th March at 8.30 p.m.; on the other, a concert by the group BCN 216 the following day, the 5th, at 8.15 p.m.
Cover of the translation into serbian of El carrer de les Camèlies by Mercè Rodoreda, published by Belgrad; Laguna, translated by Igor Marojevic, 2009.
[The
Institut Ramon Llull is a consortium made up by the Government
of Catalonia and the Government
of the Balearic Islands dedicated to the international promotion of the Catalan
language and the culture of the areas in which Catalan is spoken. The IRL forms
part of the Fundació Ramon Llull, which
was established by the governments
of Andorra, the Ramon Llull Institute, General
Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, the city of Alghero,
and the Network of Valencian Cities, and has its central offices in Andorra] 
